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Congenital Heart Disease

Overview

Heart specialists at Mayo Clinic have evaluated and treated thousands of children and adults with congenital heart disease over the past 60 years. Mayo surgeons perform more than 500 operations each year to repair congenital heart defects. The Center for Congenital Heart Disease in Rochester is dedicated to the needs of congenital heart patients. Mayo's research on new treatments and their effectiveness have helped move treatment of these disorders from the rare to the mainstream, with predictably high rates of success. Read more about Congenital Heart Disease Treatment.

Integrated Approach To Treatment

At Mayo, cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, anesthesiologists and other specialists work closely together on a daily basis to care for patients with congenital heart disease.

At Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, patients with congenital heart disease can be cared for from birth to old age by the same group of doctors.

Diagnosis

Mayo Clinic offers unsurpassed resources for the diagnosis of congenital heart disease. Tests are done in a coordinated and timely way. Read more.

About Congenital Heart Disease

About one in every 120 babies is born with some form of heart defect. Because most of these babies grow to adulthood, there are now about one million adults in the United States with congenital heart disease. Many people with congenital heart defects can live full and healthy lives.

Diseases Treated

Congenital heart disease is not a single disease but a general name for any type of malformation of the heart, heart valves or major (great) blood vessels that is present at birth.

Specialists in Minnesota treat both children and adults. Specialists in Florida and Arizona treat adult patients. See list of congenital heart disorders treated at Mayo.

Mayo Milestones

Cardiologists and surgeons at Mayo Clinic pioneered the diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease.

See a list of Mayo Clinic milestones achieved over the past half century.

Patient Stories

Charley Solano

Emergency heart surgery at Mayo Clinic corrects a congenital defect and keeps Charley Solano "raring to go."

Read Charley's story.

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Celebrating 50 Years

The 50-year anniversary of cardiac surgery at Mayo Clinic in May of 2005 highlighted the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery's achievements and rich history. Learn more about the heart-lung machine developed at Mayo, the history of cardiac surgery at Mayo and heart surgery today at our Celebrating 50 Years Web site.

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